The effects of geographic expansion on the productivity of Spanish savings banks

Journal of Productivity Analysis

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 119-143

  Illueca, Manuel ^a   Pastor, José M ^b   Tortosa Ausina, Emili ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Conditional density estimation; Geographic expansion; Malmquist productivity index; Nonparametric regression; Savings bank

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349510748     PISSN: 0895562X     EISSN: 15730441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11123-009-0138-6     Document Type: Article

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